Supporters of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani held portraits of him as they waited to welcome the negotiators arriving from Geneva.

Associated Press
November 25, 2013

TEHRAN, Iran — Hundreds of cheering supporters greeted Iran’s nuclear negotiators as they arrived back to Tehran late Sunday night.

The crowd, mostly young students, called both Iran’s foreign minister and its top nuclear negotiator ‘‘the Ambassador of Peace.’’ They carried flowers and Iranian flags. Among them were the families of slain nuclear scientists, as well as lawmakers and other officials.

The people chanted: ‘‘We are thankful in the capacity of eight years.’’ That referred to the eight years of poor relations Iran had with the West under former hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Tehran agreed Sunday to a six-month pause of its nuclear program while diplomats continue talks. International observers are set to monitor Iran’s nuclear sites as the West eases about $7 billion of the economic sanctions crippling the Islamic Republic.